Unwin Award and Lecture

Join us for the inaugural Unwin Award Ceremony and the annual Unwin Lecture. The event, held at the Royal Institution in central London, promises an evening of inspiring speakers and opportunities to network.

The lecture will be delivered by quantum physicist, academic, author, broadcaster and one of the UK’s best known science communicators, Professor Jim Al-Khalili.

Focusing on the value that publishing brings to society, Professor Jim Al-Khalili will talk about his career balancing a university role as an academic scientist as well as a public scientist, broadcaster and author. In particular, Professor Al-Khalili will reflect upon the undiminished thirst for popular science books that has continued unabated ever since Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, and his part in it.

The Lecture runs in tandem with the Unwin Award: a new, annual literary award administered by The Publishers Association, recognising non-fiction authors whose work is considered to have made a significant contribution to the world. Worth £10,000, the Unwin Award recognises authors for their overall body of work.

The six writers in contention are:

• Catherine Belton
• Caroline Criado-Perez
• Helen Czerski
• Afua Hirsch
• Guy Shrubsole
• Chris Van Tulleken

You can read more about our shortlisted authors here.

The Unwin Award and Lecture is intended to champion and showcase the value of the UK publishing industry to the world. We hope you are able to join us.

This event has been made possible following a donation from the Unwin Charitable Trust.